Folding clothes stand



Patented July 15, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE .FOLDING CLOTHES STAND EenryJ. Dery, Sanborn, N. Dak.

Application April 29, 1940, Serial No. 332,335

(Ci. 211.-.178) Y 2 Claims.

The invention relates to improvements in supports and more particularly to an improved folding clothes stand, upon which articles of clothing such as shirts, wais'ts, blouses and dresses may be hung by means of clothes hangers, and the primary object of the invention is to provide an improved stand for drying a plurality of articles of clothing in a minimum space.

Another object of the invention is to provide a clothes stand for supporting clothes hangers without tending to wrinkle or crease articles of clothing on the hangers.

A further object resides in the provision of a clothes stand, as described, which may be readily folded for shipment or storage.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent during thecourse of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, forming a, part of this specification, and in which drawing- Figure 1 is a top plan view of the clothes stand, and showing a plurality of clothes hangers supported thereby.

Figure 2 is a side elevational View of the clothes stand and hangers shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view substantially on the line 3-3 of Figure l.

In the drawing, which for the purpose of illustration shows only a preferred embodiment of the invention, and wherein similar reference characters denote corresponding parts thruout, the numeral I5 generallyV designates the improved clothes stand for carrying a plurality of clothes hangers I6 by the usual hooks Il.

In the example shown, the clothes stand I5 includes an upright tubular standard formed of telescopically sliding sections 2l, 22 releasably secured in any desired position of adjustment by a set screw 23. Releasably secured at the foot end of the'standard, by a ferrule 24 threaded thereon, is the head of a bolt whose shank 26 projects downwardly from the ferrule 24. Releasably secured to the foot end of the standard 23, by screw threaded engagement with the bolt shank 25, is a pair of crossed feet 2l for supporting the standard in an upright position.

At its upper end the standard 20 terminates in an annular top surface 3B extending between the outside 3l and the inside 32 thereof. Encircling the standard 20 below the upper end is a clamp 33 comprising spaced sections 34 at opposite sides of the standard, and bolts 35 releasably securing the clamp sections to the standard. These bolts 35 constitute pivot pins for pivotally supporting brackets 36 for swinging movement between the extended positions shown by full lines and. the pendant positions shown by broken lines in Figure 3'. Each bracket 36 is formed from a length of resilient wire including lower and upper portions 31, 38 divergently extending from an intermediate bend 39, the lower portion terminating in an eye 49 carried by one if the bolts 35 and the upper .portion terminating in a laterally offset hook 4I.

In order to releasably secure the bracket 36 in its extended position, the upper portion 38 is sprung upwardly and inwardly to move the hook lll over the upper end of the standard 20, and into engagement with the inside 32 of the standard, into which position the hook is urged because of the resiliency of the bracket. Upon hanging a plurality of the clothes hangers I6 on the lower portion 3l of the bracket, the bend 39 will prevent crowding the outermost hanger off the free end of the bracket.

By making the standard 20 in two sections,

the clothes stand may be raised or lowered tok suit the length of the garments to be carried thereby.

In order to take down the clothes stand for storage, the sections 2|, 22 are substantially completely telesooped so as to reduce the length of the standard to a minimum, the feet 21 are swung into alignment with one another, and the standard 2l) is removed from the feet by unscrewing the bolt shank 26 therefrom, ii desired.

Various changes may be made in the form of the invention hereon shown and described, without departing from the spiritl thereof or the scope of the following claims. y

I claim: f

1. In a support for clothes hangers and the like, a tubular standard having an annular upper end portion, pivot means carried by the standard below said upper end portion, a plurality ci brackets, and each formed of a length of resilient wire having an acute angular bend intermediateV its ends and forming an upper section, a lower section and a bight portion between the upper section and the lower section, said lower section at its end being mounted on said pivot means for vertical swinging movement between substantially horizontal and vertical positions, said upper section at its end terminating in a laterally offset hook for releasable engagement within the annular upper end of the standard upon disposition of said lower section in a substantially horizontal position whereby to form a support for a series of clothes hangers and Whereby, upon release of said hook, said bracket will be supported from said pivot means in a compact pendant position wherein said lower section is substantially vertically disposed in close proximity to the standard and with the upper section in closely spaced relation thereto so that clothes hangers may be supported from said bight portion in an oult-of-the-way position alongside the standard.

2. In a support for clothes hangers and the like, a standard having an upper end portion, pivot; means carried by the standard below said upper end portion, and a plurality of brackets, each formed of a length of resilient wire having an acute angular bend intermediate its ends and forming an upper section, a lower section, and a bight portion between the upper section and the lower section, said lower section at its end being mounted on said pivot means for vertical swinging movement between substantially horizontal and vertical positions, said upper section at its free end adapted for detachable connection with the standard above said pivot means upon disposition of said lower section in a substantially horizontal position whereby to form a support for a series of clothes hangers and whereby, upon release of said upper section, from connection with said standard, said bracket will be supported from said pivot means in a, compact pendant position wherein said lower section is substantially vertically disposed in close proximity to the standard and with the upper section in closely spaced relation thereto so that clothes hangers may be supported from said bight portion in an out-of-theway position alongside the standard.

HENRY J. DERY. 

